CITYarts in the Press
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Orange County Register
November 16, 2024
Students Celebrate Peace Through Artwork
FOX 5 New York
October 4, 2024
Bronx’s ‘Joker Steps’ get colorful makeover
CBS NEWS
October 4, 2024
Bronx steps featured in “Joker” revitalized new mural
ABC7 Eyewitness News
October 4, 2024
Shakespeare steps in the Bronx get CITYarts Community Program
KiJuKU
September 22, 2024
300 pictures from 100 countries for peace
Radio Free Brooklyn
September 18, 2024
Love Me Or Leave Me hosted by Francesca D’Alessio. For Tsipi Ben-Haim’s interview, listen to 32:00-1:10:25
Lehigh Valley News
September 7, 2024
‘Give peace a chance’: How Bethlehem’s new CITYarts Peace Wall breaks down barriers
New Haven Arts Council
August 15, 2024
Young Artists Paint For Peace In Fair Haven
New Haven Register
August 16, 2024
New Haven children team up with professional artists to create peace mural at Fair Haven Library
WVIT NBC News at 4
August 15, 2024
CITYarts Peace Wall mural in New Haven, CT
CanvasRebel
Meet Janelle Frese and the CITYarts Peace Wall mural in Anaheim, CA
New Haven Independent
July 10, 2024
Youth Artists Make The Case For Peace
New Haven Arts Council
July 8, 2024
An Exhibition Seeks To Bring Peace To New Haven
ABC7 Eyewitness News
June 27, 2024
CITYarts Inspiring Peace 35th Anniversary Gala was featured on ABC7 Eyewitness news.
CanvasRebel Interview with
Tsipi Ben-Haim
Tsipi shared her story of founding CITYarts and two of her most meaningful projects.
I Love the Upper West Side - October 10, 2023
Ribbon Cutting for New Mural at Community Garden
Architektura & Biznes - September 2023
Warsztaty z empatii (Workshops on Empathy) Tsipi Ben-Haim interview on CITYarts programs featured in Polish art and architecture magazine Architektura & Biznes
TVO News
TVO News Coverage of the CITYarts Global Peace Wall and CITYarts Pieces for Peace Traveling Exhibition in Wetteren, Belgium.
HLN - September 7, 2022
Students from Wetteren schools in Belgium are working on CITYarts 7th Peace Wall, as part of the CITYarts Pieces For Peace exhibition in the town hall of Wetteren.
HLN - September 2, 2022
In Wetteren, Belgium, Tsipi Ben-Haim, Founder, Executive and Creative Director of CITYarts opens the Pieces for Peace exhibition, with artwork that calls for peace from young people all over the world.
NYC 77 Events - September 6, 2022
CITYarts #353rd mural project, Our Voices, Ribbon Cutting ceremony - August 29, 2022
CITYarts on NY1 - August 29, 2022
CITYarts Our Voices mural project is officially open for public enjoyment! New York 1 covers the Ribbon Cutting ceremony for this bright and beautiful mural on the retaining wall surrounding Alexander Hamilton Playground in West Harlem.
Cultbytes - June 23, 2022
On June 21, 2022, the public arts and education nonprofit CITYarts brought together artists, collectors, and donors to celebrate its 33rd anniversary with a Back to Life Gala and Making a Difference Through the Arts awards.
La Dépêche - May 25, 2022
The twinning committee between Gers and Toro in Spain is resuming its activities through its participation in a Southern Music Festival this summer. The festivities began with creation of a Peace Wall in Toro, the project carried out by students of Saint-Exupéry college in association with “CITYarts” which gave rise to similar projects in New York, Tel Aviv, London and Berlin.
CITYarts on NY1 - April 18, 2022
CITYarts unveils “We Can Stop the Speed of Climate Change” mural in collaboration with the NYPD. The mural is inspired by indigenous Americans at the Dyckman Community Center in Inwood, NY.
La Opinión - April 10, 2022
CITYarts is excited to announce the completion of our 6th Global Peace Wall, located in Toro, Spain! Volunteers from Spain, France, Guernica, and Ukraine came together to visualize how to bring peace to their lives and the communities they live in.
La Opinión - September 27, 2021
In preparation for CITYarts 6th Global Peace Wall, Tsipi Ben-Haim visits the city of Toro, Spain to get to know first-hand its people, culture, and ideas.
GothamToGo - August 25, 2020
CITYarts, a not-for-profit that connects local youth with professional artists to collaborate on public art, recently began the restoration of their ‘Flowering Vine & Us’ in St. James Triangle Park, located in Chinatown.
CITYarts in amNY - July 21, 2020
CITYarts has launched a new program, “Paint Your Neighborhood/School From Your HeART At Home”. Participating students from various New York City schools will work on a project every week unique to their community with a professional artist.
CITYarts & Spanish Palate Collaboration - June 25, 2020
Spanish farmers support the cause of CITYarts (to empower, educate and transform) by creating unique and delicious range of white and red wines with labels featuring artwork by Pieces for Peace participants.
Authority Magazine —
Social Impact Heroes: “How Tsipi Ben-Haim of CITYarts is actively transforming New York City with the power of art” - March 6, 2020
Tsipi Ben-Haim, Founder, Executive & Creative Director of CITYarts, talks about how the organization empowers youth by activating their imagination and desire to make a difference in the world through power of art.
City Guide - August 6, 2019
CITYarts invites you to join their cause by volunteering, creating, and donating in order to support its ongoing mural and mosaic projects.
Yediot America - December 23, 2018
Tsipi Ben-Haim, Founder, Executive & Creative Director of CITYarts, celebrates 30 years of partnering with community organizations, youth, and professional artists to create public murals and mosaics throughout New York City.
CITYarts on NY 1 - October 17, 2018
NY1 Broadcast - St. James Triangle in Chinatown gets a brand new mural “Flowering Vine and Us”; a project helmed by public arts & education organization, CITYarts to help beautify the neighborhood.
Downtown Express - August 9, 2018
CITYarts and volunteers from Stuyvesant High School bring new life to the Alice on the Wall mural in Lower Manhattan by coming together to touch up and restore the mural.
LIC Post - July 20, 2018
CITYarts helms the mural called “Rising in the Community”, with help of kids, families and volunteers of the neighborhood. The project promotes the cultural and artistic identity of the Hunters Point, Long Island City area, as well as activating the imagination and sense of community among youth.
LIC Post - June 21, 2018
CITYarts and volunteers will produce and create a mural in the Hunters Point, Long Island City area. The mural will follow a theme of “peace”, and is one of many works that will form part of CITYarts’ “Pieces For Peace” collection to promote youth empowerment through art.
Radio Sefarad
The Jewish Community of Madrid CJM will host the traveling exhibition “Pieces for Peace” with the aim of promoting cultural understanding among young people from all over the world.
AMNew York - October 20, 2017
CITYarts in collaboration with Hamilton Grange Middle School, unveiled a giant mural, “Following in the Footsteps of Alexander Hamilton,” in continuing efforts to beautify New York City neighborhoods. The mural depicts a giant tree with words of inspiration draped across its branches to celebrate the history of Hamilton Heights.
Jewish Journal - September 11, 2017
CITYarts presents the travelling exhibition “Pieces for Peace”, in the Jewish community of Madrid to foster cultural understanding among American youth and their peers around the world though art.
Spectrum News NY1 - August 7, 2016
Students of PS 120 in Bushwick have started painting a 10-foot-by-100-foot wall with help of CITYarts and artist Paul Deo. CITYarts’ Executive Director Tsipi Ben-Haim believes that “when kids create, they do not destroy; they inspire us all.”
The Lo-Down - March 29, 2016
Historic Jewish heritage mural, “Our Strength is Our Heritage, Our Heritage is Our Life” at 232 East Broadway was created in 1973 by local youth teaming up with professional artists and was sponsored by the organization CITYarts. The mural depicts scenes from Jewish history, including the Nazi era, and some of the teens were children of Holocaust survivors.
Bowery Boogie - August 23, 2013
CITYarts, the nonprofit organization that connects local youth with artists to create inspirational pieces and a sense of community empowerment, is building the 210-foot long mural in Henry M. Jackson Playground on the Lower East Side. The painting will be executed by local artists Yanusz Gilewicz and Leon Reid IV with help of the youth and volunteers in the neighborhood.
The Villager - October 31, 2013
CITYarts and over 500 volunteers create what might possibly be the world’s largest 3D mural. Originally created in 2002 as a reaction to the tragedy of 9/11, the work is titled “Celebrating the Heroes of Our City.”
The Brooklyn Downtown Star - September 9, 2015
CITYarts with help of 600 area students transforms a wall in Flatbush Park into a beautiful public art piece. This is the latest project by CITYarts which brings area youth and professional artists to create public arts and beautify the city.
DNAinfo - October 8, 2014
CITYarts is restoring a mosaic at Jacob H. Schiff Park in New York City. Tsipi Ben-Haim, Founder, Executive & Creative Director of CITYarts, emphasizes the importance of preservation of the murals, “if the murals are destroyed, they lose their transformative influence.”
sotonoba.place
Journalist Koichiro Tamura walks you through the process of how CITYarts collaborates with community groups and schools in order to foster creativity and get youth involved in their communities.
The New York Times - September 23, 1972
Cityarts Workshop, Inc., a private, nonprofit community arts group encourages youth to paint murals and create mosaic plazas in neighborhoods like Lower East side, Washington Square Park and Midtown Clinton Community in order to beautify the city.